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I’m very happy to take part of this show along with some friends and very admired photographers of mine. “Edita: Secuencia /Sentido” curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez will show at CGAC Santiago de Compostela until june 14th 2015. Don’t miss the chance to see it.

“Music boxes” is a photographic project that revisits the open air stages used for orchestras and concerts during the yearly local festivals in rural Galica, in northern spain.

These simple constructions, put in place by the people of each town or village, served for years as the place of celebration, hosting all types of musical performances and festivities. The project documents these structures and their environment, now disused and in deterioration which in past times were cental to the lives and the history of the local people. Now they lie empty and abandoned, having been replaced by modern mobile stages. Leaving the spectator only with their imagination to contemplate the activities of which these places were once the heart.

The scattered and trans-European city that the mountainous coast of Alicante has become, houses a heterogeneous population that is drawn to the sun, the sea, the temperate climate, the convenient public services and the leafy greenery. The promise of relaxing and hedonistic experiences captivates both seasonal tourists and long-term residents who see their expectations fulfilled amongst jasmine and bougainvilleas. The project draws from this context and is designed to meet the demands of multiple families in the summertime and as a haven for retirees the rest of the year.

The ‘Serrería’ vs ‘La Cosa’ is a form of coexistence, a dialectical combat mode, which has allowed going beyond the conventional concept of rehabilitation and inhabit the remaining gap between the two opponents. It is a coexistence of opposites which has understood this intermediate region not as a finished product but as an open, versatile and activated process that people activate.

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, and DJs, thereby giving them the opportunity to experiment with and exchange knowledge and ideas about the world of music.

The 2011 edition of RBMA was going to be held in Tokyo, but given the devastating effects of the earthquake, the location had to be changed. With only five months to plan, the city of Madrid took over. The creative space known as Matadero Madrid, which is located in an early 20th century industrial warehouse complex, was designated as the event’s new location.

In many ways this project shares the logic of a Russian matryoshka doll. Not only in the most literal, physical sense, in which one thing is directly incorporated into another, but also in a temporal sense, in which one actually originates within the other

Under these circumstances and in an emergency situation, the work began on an infrastructure capable of meeting the precise technical and acoustic needs of the event, in addition to accelerating, promoting and enriching a series of extremely intense artistic encounters that would take place between the participating musicians, while at the same time adding an environment that would record and archive everything taking place.

The event’s acoustic requirements determined its geometry, as well as the choice of materials and constructive solutions. Each of the areas acquired a specific logic that corresponded with its usage, thereby making it possible to uniquely resolve its acoustic needs. Some heterogeneous solutions included the massive walls in the recording studios, the absorbent surfaces of the cloth domes in the conference room and the structural and geometric independence of the nonparallel pavilions.

Last year I had the pleasure to travel around northern Portugal for Monocle’s Portugal Travel Guide, included in their december-january issue. I love this country. Click here if you want to see more images.